Blog by BrainWaves
AUTHOR: Jasmine Turna
Melissa is a 4th year PhD student in the MiNDS program working with Dr. Michael Mazurek. Her project focuses on concussions, more specifically, finding a biomarker for concussions. Initially, Melissa began looking at exercise as an enrichment program, but switched to a more cli...
AUTHOR: Crystal Mahadeo
I have been exposed to a wide variety of opportunities to share neuroscience with the community, including a unique chance to guide a budding scientist through McMaster’s Out of our MiNDS outreach program. Out of our MiNDS is run by MiNDS students and takes basic and cutting e...
AUTHORS: Siu C, Balsor J, Jones D, Murphy K
Summary: Caitlin Siu
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Krawczak
After a recently busy period of time, which concluded in the successful hosting of the Southern Ontario Neuroscience Association meeting at McMaster, Associate Professor, Dr. Deda Gillespie, sat down with me for an interview.
AUTHORS: Siu C, Balsor J, Jones D, Murphy K
Summary: Caitlin Siu
AUTHOR : Bill Simpson
Bill Simpson, a 4th year Ph.D. student sheds some light on the Student of MiNDS Association (SOMA) and how to prepare for a Master’s Thesis defence.
AUTHOR: Justin Balsor
I have spent the past month consuming an inordinate amount of caffeine. On any given morning, you can count on me to arrive at work sporting a large regular from Tim Horton’s, or to brew the next batch of coffee in the lab French press. However, this latest coffee bender has bee...
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Dear Students and Colleagues,
Welcome to the first issue of Brain Waves: the Newsletter of the Neuroscience gradaute program (aka MiNDS). My name is Ryan Van Lieshout and I am the Associate Director of MiNDS. A number of very talented young people from our program and...
AUTHOR : Dr. Kathy Murphy
A few weeks ago, our students spent the day documenting A Day in the Life of a MiNDS student. Once an hour, they stopped and took a picture. The collection of pictures is funny, and include pics of cats and dogs, students exercising, riding the bus, and meeting with fell...
"Why is one neuron, rather than its neighbour, allocated to fear memory?" Questions like this drive Dr. Sheena Josselyn's research in an attempt to understand the neural substrates of memory and related disorders.
Inspired by Karl Lashley’s search for the engram (the ph...